A practical probabilistic design procedure for LV residential distribution systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2247-2254

  Herman, Ron ^a   Gaunt, C Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Load modeling; Low voltage (LV) distribution; Probabilistic methods

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FEEDING; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TANKERS (SHIPS);

BETA PARAMETERS; CONDUCTOR SIZINGS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN LOADS; EUROPEAN; LOAD MODELING; LOAD PARAMETERS; LOW-VOLTAGE; LOW-VOLTAGE (LV) DISTRIBUTION; PRACTICAL; PROBABILISTIC DESIGNS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RESIDENTIAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 54049141225     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2008.919041     Document Type: Article

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